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"Trance. Culture. Flow" was the first concert in the autumn series of audiovisual events, which took place on September 29 at Sauna Studio in Warsaw. Sasha Zakrevski and Jerzy Mączyński, or Poly Chain x JerryandThePelicanSystem, presented a new sound material that critically reflects the eurocentric attitude from the perspective of music and the trance traditionally used in it. The project focuses on the contexts of electronic music and its potential inclusiveness. Small gestures in video and audio field recordings reflect the repetition, at the same time individualization of daily and ordinary needs and desires, probably independent of time and geographic location.

electronics, improvisation: Sasha Zakrevska ( Poly Chain )
electronics, improvisation, saxophone: Jerzy Maczynski ( Jerry&ThePelicanSystem )
visuals: Katarzyna Dębska
Rec, mix: Wojtek Perczyński


SAUNA STUDIO is an abandoned spa complex in the basement of the former Polish-Soviet Friendship House in Warsaw. Now converted into a studio and venue for recordings, concerts, exhibitions and audiovisual activities.
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SARIANI is a series of four audiovisual events organized by Sauna Studio in Warsaw (29/09, 28/10, 24/11, 1/12). The program includes concerts combined with visualizations, video installations and accompanying exhibitions.

Poly Chain / Jerzy Maczynski LIVE

Raw Live from Sauna Studio

SPA I, september 2022

Antonina Nowacka - vocal
Jerzy Mączyński aka Pelican System - sopranino saxophone, electronics

Andrzej Kijanowski - recordings

Pelican System  Orchestra / Antonina Nowacka

Mixtape I

Released by:
Vibrajon
Release date:
23.01.2025
P-line:
℗ 2025 Jerzy Mączyński under exclusive licence to Vibrasjon

5 thoughts to run

Video by Katarzyna Debska
Music by Jerzy Mączyński

Amaze myself is a track from DO 555ps.

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Saxophonist, composer and producer Jerzy Mączyński fuses utopian electronics and organic improvisation on sci-fi jazz odyssey, DO 555PS.

Conceived as a sonic manifesto for an imagined planet - a tabula rasa for humanity to start afresh, live in harmony with nature and build a more idyllic society - DO 555PS is Polish saxophonist, producer and composer Jerzy Mączyński’s most ambitious project to date.

Building on his 2023 collaboration with Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being, DO 555PS is Mączyński’s first self-produced album – a tour de force of spacious, galactic sound design that leans into drone, minimalism and the rich history of sci-fi soundtracks for a 10-track suite of astral proportions.

Crafted from sound bank from samples of sopranino and tenor saxophone which he calls the “pelican system digital orchestra”, after his band Jerry & The Pelican System, the layered compositions tweak the reedy textures of Mączyński’s acoustic instruments into uncanny forms that seem to expand and contract simultaneously across time and space.

The album opens with the stratospheric ‘Requiem for the EARTH’S nature’, a slab of reverb-heavy outer-space ambience, throbbing synths and insistent kicks - a eulogy for the apocalypse, imagined in sound.

Launched into Mączyński’s universe, DO 555PS unfolds across the brooding fourth world explorations of ‘Nomore.’, the synthetic redemption of ‘Light between us’, and densely fine grain ‘A dry rocky place of hope covered by sonic lava’ – an exercise in audio world-building that surges, swells and shudders a vision of the new planet into being.

From the pulsating, sparse phrasing of ‘Amaze Myself’ - an invitation for the listener to abandon their egos - to the nebulous interzone of ‘Listen to your ghosts’, which sounds like a lost cut from Tarkovsky’s Solaris, DO 555PS is an immersive piece of sonic cinema and a paean to lost futures, best experienced as an unbroken whole.

Set to be released on Eivind Vullum’s Vibrasjon label in Norway, DO 555PS follows the 2021 release of Jerry & The Pelican System’s SARIANI - featuring tracks composed by Mączyński, produced together with Waclaw Zimpel and subsequently performed solo by Mączyński - and 2023’s TUNE IN, made under Mączyński and Hieroglyphic Being’s Universal Harmonies & Frequencies moniker.

Described by The Quietus as one of the most interesting records of the year (“as bold as it is massive”), TUNE IN laid the foundations for Mączyński to strike out alone on DO 555PS, inspired by Moss’s skewed production and arrangements to striking and unique effect.

Inspired in equal parts by Polish soundtrack master Krzysztof Komeda, jazz musician Tomasz Stanko and the contemporary electronic music scenes in Berlin and Scandinavia, Mączyński’s sound is both maximalist and restrained, sensitive to detail and atmosphere, defying categorisation and swirling in an orbit of its own making.

Mixed by Ben Pest and mastered by Helmut Erler, Jerzy Mączyński’s DO 555PS is released on LP via Vibrasjon in March 2025.

text by Anton Spice

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